Pryor's Ark -- A man on the run with his young daughter hides in a peculiarly backward village in New Mexico, where he helps a dotty old man build an ark in the middle of the desert. Filled with charming village life and odd characters, but with an undertone of menace. Assassins track him down and the Ark plays a strange role in the denoument.
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